Category: Race and Guns

Back in October, I was privileged to take my second trip to the Gun Rights Policy Conference, an annual event put on by the Second Amendment Foundation. You might recall that the 2016 Conference is what put me on a…

How anxious am I to dive into the Philando Castile drama? I’ll put it this way. I have spent the last few days watching and re-watching all five movies from the Twilight saga. I think I watched Eclipse like three…

So…. It’s been a very interesting few days. 🙂 Productive, too. I finished all my grading for the semester, put out a few fires for my students, belted out one of the most difficult blog posts I’ve ever had to write,…

I posted on Saturday that the NRA Convention was going pretty well at that point. Granted, there wasn’t but a handful of black folks there. I personally encountered about 12 out of 82,000. But, hey, it’s a start. More than…

Hey folks! Blogging from my phone right now, so my apologies if this isn’t terribly polished. Earlier This year I attended my first SHOT Show and my first IWA, so I figured I might as well keep it up. Here…

“Seulement un peu, mais pas très bien.” That’s all I could muster when the server asked, “Parlez vous Français?” But, I’m in Germany! I have no idea why the waiter spoke French or why he had the slightest hope that I would too. But I felt the same way I always do when I travel overseas: Kind of like a centrist American douchebag for not being multi-lingual like the rest of the educated world.

Hi, everyone! Long time no talk to! Sorry for the radio silence. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year’s. I’ve been a bit of a whirlwind lately (hence the radio silence). I’ve learned that starting tomorrow…

Much has been made of “The Bubble” lately. Righties say lefties live in a bubble. Flyover country says the coasts are in a bubble. Black people say white people are in a bubble. Poor people say rich people are in…